Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-11-18
SAM JONES LECTURE

Before a New Haven Audfence-Re
Talks of Character and Characters.
The famous southern evangelist, Rev. Sam
Jones, appeared before good sized audience
OF the Hyperion last evening in his lecture On
Character and Characters"
Mr.. Jones is a speaker of marked ability,
possessing good stage presence and easy
manner of delivery. His pointed remarks
and quaint witticisms were interspersed with
the serious portions of his discourse, and ex-
cited frequent applause. In the course of
his lecture he said that reputation is what
men say of us, but character is what we make
ourselves, and can be put on or off like a
glove. Character is the result of harmony,
and the efforts of humanity should be direct
ed to secure that harmony. Man and woman
have enough innate meanness to damn them,
and what they want of any more is more than
can tell. have no patience with the theory
that minifes everything. There is the man
dust; if that man left home for a
Journey, and his wife wrote him and
addressed him as "my dear worm" there
would be row, and should he write to her
as his darling worm" there would be anoth-
er and greater one. We sing ourselves into
we are 80. If we were nothing and 60 to
heaven and see nothing we should think
heaven was nothing. There is the old fell
low who joins the church and then goes to
everybody and tells them what hard case
he is. He loves to say so and thinks it does
him good. Character must have foundation
and to have foundation must have principle.
He'll has no principle, and thus no founda-
ton, and is like man standing on his head.
I would make affections the basis of
aA0 II
is his affection, and when man
loves everything God loves and hates every
thing God hates, then he is in good shape to
do something with, and when he gets his af-
fections right it is no trouble for him to do
right. do not like these cool, calm people
their cool, calm way. Did you ever hear of
corpse that was not cool9 What do like
is the man who has the courage to dare to do
right and is not afraid to stand up and say
SO. There are plenty of men who sing songs
and make lots Of talk, but if the devil were
to come in they wouldn't dare to burst per-
cussion cap. To use western phrase, give
me the man with sand in his gizzard, and
give me the game preacher, who does not
fear man or devil and does not care for the
petty feelings Of each one IN his congrega-
ton. Such one is great blessing to the
community. There are others who do moth
ing but marry the living and bury the dead,
for they are easy to catch. The devil can
run a mile while such a man is pulling on
his boots. Every preacher should be a full
grown man and should thunder from the pull
pit just what he means and should handle
the great moral questions of the day
and the liquor question in particular.
The essential points of good character are
backbone, temper, knowledge and patience
Our knowledge should act on our temper like
the governor on an engine, keeping us down
to honest, steady living, and our patience
should be our daily study.
~ The speaker closed by comparing the char
'aeter of the man or woman who does good in
woriG % me c,ear tnas
joy in it's course, while the character of the
sour tempered man whose pleasure to none
but himself is like the stagnant pool that
spreads pestilence and ruin all around it, and
finally dries up and is blotted from the face
of the earth.